Court: SA minister's wife smuggled drugs

Sheryl Cwele, wife of South Africa's Intelligence minister, has been convicted of drug trafficking.

Sheryl married to Siyabonga Cwele, recruited women to smuggle drugs into the country from Turkey and South America, a judge found.

Allegations of drug trafficking surfaced in 2008 after the arrest of a South African woman caught in Brazil with 9kg (22lb) of cocaine.

Tessa Beetge is currently serving an eight-year jail sentence in Sao Paulo.